Subject-Verb Agreement/ Homophones
Choose the correct form of (too, to, two)
1. I have ______ dogs at home.
2. We are going _____ the movies later.
1. What is two
2. What is to
What does it mean to compare two topics?
What is show how something is alike or the same?
What plot element includes the setting of the story?
What is exposition?
What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
What is a noun?
What is the difference between a protagonist, antagonist and a dueterogonist?
What is a character that does negative things and goes against the protagonist?
What is a character that helps the protagonist and is like a sidekick?
Choose the correct homophone (there, their, they're)
_______ going to put ______ backpacks over ______.
What is they're?
What is their?
What is there?
Which transition word represents contrasting:
similarly, both, or however
What is however?
What is the climax of a personal narrative?
What is the most exciting part or problem of a story?
Identify the action verb:
The excited puppy quickly chased the ball.
What is chased?
A narrator tells the story using the words "I," "me," and "my." What point of view is this?
What is first person?
Choose the correct verb.
The students _____ excited for the game. (is/are)
Ms. Davis ______ to eat cookies. (like/likes)
What is are?
What is likes?
Is this a thesis or a claim?
"Dogs and cats are both popular pets, but they have many differences."
What is a thesis?
Put these plot elements in the correct order: resolution, climax, exposition, rising action, falling action.
What is the adjective in this sentence:
The enormous waves crashed against the shore.
What is enormous?
What is third person omniscient?
Choose the correct verb.
Neither the teacher nor the students _____ (were/are) ready for the big surprise. They both _______ (want/wants) it to be good.
What is were?
What is want?
In a five-paragraph compare and contrast essay, what should be included in the introduction?
What is a hook, background information, and a thesis?
What is the difference between a personal narrative and a fictional story?
What is a fictional story is fake, a personal narrative is something that is true and has happened to you?
Identify the adverb and what it describes:
The exhausted runner slowly walked across the finish line.
What genre is it when an author writes about something that could happen in real life, but hasn't.
What is realistic fiction?
Choose the correct verbs and homophones:
_____ going to bring _____ notebooks because the students _____ going to need them for class. (Their/There/They're)
(your/you're)
(is/are)
What is They're?
What is your?
What is are?
Write a thesis statement comparing basketball and soccer. Your thesis must introduce both topics and explain how they are alike AND different.
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A student writes how their story starts to wrap up and the problem starts to get solved. What plot element should the author edit to make this part stronger?
What is falling action?
Identify all four parts of speech in this sentence:
The nervous student carefully carried her heavy backpack.
What is student and backpack? (nouns)
What is carefully? (adverb)
What is nervous and heavy? (adjective)
What is carried? (verb)
A character wants to win a school competition but discovers their best friend is competing against them. Identify the character's conflict and explain one way the author could build rising action.
Answers will vary.